Freedom and Its Limits
Which three constitutional amendments abolished slavery, established citizenship and equal protection, and protected voting rights regardless of race?
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
What term describes the rapid growth of factories, mechanized production, and manufacturing?
What is industrialization?
What 1887 federal law divided tribal lands into individual allotments?
What is the Dawes Act?
What 1898 war marked a major expansion of U.S. overseas power after conflict with Spain?
What is the Spanish-American War?
What was the name of the movement in which millions of African Americans left the South for cities in the North and West?
What is the Great Migration?
What labor arrangement required many formerly enslaved people to farm land in exchange for a share of the harvest?
What is sharecropping?
Which steel industrialist wrote The Gospel of Wealth?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What 1890 massacre of Lakota people became a symbol of violent federal suppression of Indigenous resistance?
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Which Pacific island kingdom, previously overthrown by American-backed interests, was annexed by the United States in 1898?
What is Hawaiʻi?
What German diplomatic proposal to Mexico helped push the United States toward entering World War I?
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
What 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of separate but equal?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What 1882 federal law prohibited most Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What were community centers that offered education, childcare, and social services to urban immigrants and working-class families called?
What are settlement houses?
Who led Filipino resistance against U.S. colonial rule during the Philippine-American War?
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
What 1919 wave of racial violence targeted African American communities across the United States?
What is the Red Summer?
What system allowed Southern states to lease incarcerated people, disproportionately African Americans, to private employers?
What is convict leasing?
What term was used to describe wealthy industrialists who accumulated enormous fortunes through business practices often criticized as exploitative?
Who were the robber barons?
Which journalist used photography and writing in How the Other Half Lives to expose urban poverty?
Who is Jacob Riis?
What poem by Rudyard Kipling portrayed imperial domination as a supposed civilizing duty?
What is The White Man's Burden?
Which Black intellectual wrote Returning Soldiers in 1919, calling on Black veterans to fight for democracy at home?
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
Why was the Compromise of 1877 a turning point for African American freedom?
It ended federal military intervention in the South, helping white Southern Democrats consolidate power and undermine Reconstruction gains.
What term describes the negative attitudes and hostility toward immigrants, often based on the belief that native-born Americans should receive preferential treatment?
What is nativism?
How did the Dawes Act threaten Indigenous sovereignty beyond simply redistributing land?
It undermined communal landholding and tribal authority, promoted assimilation, and opened Indigenous lands to non-Native ownership.
What contradiction existed between American claims of liberty and the U.S. war in the Philippines?
The United States claimed to defend freedom and self-government while using military force to deny Filipinos independence.
How did World War I expose a contradiction in the United States' claims to defend democracy when it came to African American soldiers?
The United States fought to defend democracy abroad while African Americans continued to experience segregation, disenfranchisement, racial violence, and discrimination at home.